M-W Vocabulary builder: Unit 15

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term (limit, bound)

term, terminate, terminus
terminal - a terminal illness; a terminal degree; I am terminally bored by his egocentric rambling about his extraordinary talents and achievements.
indeterminate - the artifact is of indeterminate origin
interminable (never ending) the interminable talk put most audience into a catatonic stupor.
terminus - i used to live about 10 minutes from the terminus of the Orange line.

geo (earch)
geography, geologist (Randy Marsh of South Park)
geocentric vs. heliocentric (Copernicus)
geophysics
geostationary - Most satellites are geostationary
geothermal - we try to go green with geothermal, photovoltaic equipment and wind turbines.

spher (ball)
atmosphere
spherical - apples are spherical, fairly round; asteroids are often spherical, roughly round but lumpy.
stratosphere - 平流层 从对流层以上到外太空；阻隔紫外线等
biosphere - (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere -> biosphere)
hemisphere

vert (turn)
vertigo 眩晕 advertisement
divert - As soon as he started the unpleasant topic I diverted the conversation elsewhere. Games were created as a diversion for ancient people to endure famines.
converter
avert - She would avert her eyes whenever they happened to look at each other at the same time.     He feels a strong aversion to certain topics at the forum.
revert - We hope he would not revert to his old ways at the new school.

morph (shape)
amorphous - The first lesson to learn about planning is to make concrete plans, instead of amorphous ones.
anthropomorphic - 拟人化 In children's books animals are often given anthropomorphic treats, they could talk, think and have human like feelings.
metamorphosis - a worm turning into a beautiful butterfly is a kind of metamorphosis. 孙悟空 is capable of metamorphose into 72 different forms.
morphology 形态学

form
formation, formula,
format
conform - an eccentric person refuses to conform to widely accepted social norms.
formality - at our party all formalities are forgone and guests genuinely behave like they are at their own homes.
formative - reading profusely during one's formative years is considered beneficial to one's intellectual growth.  

doc/doct
doctor
doctrine - Communist doctrines taught in the classroom are recited but not understood nor believed.
. Χdoctrinaire - Nowadays politics and philosophy are still taught with a doctrinaire approach in classrooms.
indoctrinate - The courses are structured this way specifically to indoctrinate students about communist ideals.

tut/tui (look after, guide)
tutor, tutee,
tutorial
tuition
intuition - in "blink" the author Gladwell claims that intuition often precedes sound rational thinking in guiding people's behavior and perception.
tutelage - This forum is a medium for current graduate students to provide expert tutelage to novices.


Number words
di/dup
duel, dual, duet, duo, duplicate,
dichotomy - "You are either with us or against us" is a logical fallacy called false dichotomy, in eliminating the middle ground.
dimorphic - Peacock is dimorphic - the male having splendid flashy feathers while the female is rather drab looking.
duplex - The duplex is a two-family townhouse with two separate entries, sharing only one wall in between.
duplicity - You have to constantly be on the look out for duplicity in this city replete with con artists.

bi/bin
bicycle, binoculars, bigamy, bisect
bipartisan
binary
biennial (once every two years). biweekly and bimonthly are ambigous in meaning
bipolar